Iraqi forces control Khanaqin, Snune. Bashiqa fate unknown
Iraqi troops and the Hashd al-Shaabi forces have taken control of Khanaqin in the Diyala province and Bashiqa near Mosul on Tuesday morning, Hashd said in a statement.
A Rudaw reporter said that the Peshmerga withdrew from Khanaqin following an agreement with the Peshmerga commanders as the forces were advancing.
The Yezidi town of Snune, near Shingal, is now also under the Hashd al-Shaabi, Rudaw has learned.
A Kurdish commander, Hasan Afandi stationed in Bashiqa, insists that they are still present in the town, disputing the Hashd statement.
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2:51 p.m.
CORRECTION: Border crossings with Iran are under Kurdish control
Two Kurdish officials have confirmed to Rudaw that the Kurdish border crossings with Iran are under the full control of the Kurdish authorities and that the Iraqi forces are not present there.
“The claim that the Hashd al-Shaabi forces have entered the border ports between the Kurdistan Region and Iran is not true,” Samal Abdulrahman, director general of the Kurdistan Region’s customs told Rudaw.
“No Iraqi force has come to the border port which remains closed by Iran,” Aram Sayakhan, media and relations officer of the Parwezkhan told Rudaw.
Earlier Rudaw reported erroneously that the Parvezkhan border crossing gate had been taken by the Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi.
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12:13 p.m.
Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi takes control of Gwer, Makhmour, Parvezkhan border crossing
Peshmerga forces have pulled out of the town of Makhmur and Gwer and have given up some of their bases to US forces, but Hashd al-Shaabi has not entered the town as of yet.
Sirwan Barzani, commander of the Gwer-Makhmur front, spoke to Rudaw saying that they have withdrawn their forces from inside Makhmur and have spoken with Iraqi forces to be there in coordination with them.
The Hashd al-Shaabi militia has also reached Parvezkhan border crossing gate on the Kurdistan Region-Iran border.
Mahmood Sangawi, commander of the Peshmerga forces on the Garmaser front told Rudaw on Monday night that in a meeting with the Diyala governor and the province’s police chief they agreed for the Peshmerga to stay in areas it recently holds.
He said they also formed a coordination committee.
They also agreed to reactivate the joint checkpoints of before June 10, 2014, the day when ISIS took over large swathes of territory in northern Iraq.
He said they also agreed that no party should control government institutions in the province.
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11:44 a.m.
Iraqi forces control Shingal, Kirkuk oil fields
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Iraqi forces, supported by the Iranian-backed Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi have continued to take control of more areas that were previously held by the Kurdish Peshmerga for the second day in a row. They are now in control of the symbolic Yezidi town of Shingal and Bai Hassan oil field in Kirkuk, one of Kurdistan’s sources of revenue.
